Sherlock Holmes-iana
See also: Sherlock Holmesiana
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sherlock Holmes-iana pl (plural only)
- Uncommon form of Sherlock Holmesiana.
- 1957, AB Bookman’s Yearbook, page 297, column 1:
- Sherlock Holmes-iana. All Exc. Doyle
- 1975 August 22, Mary Stanyan, “The new Sherlock Holmes”, in San Francisco Examiner, 111th year, number 62, page 23, column 1:
- “There I was, beating this great girl in a barstool game of trivia, until she came up with her Sherlock Holmes-iana,” New Yorker [Nicholas] Meyer said yesterday during a visit to San Francisco. “There she had me stumped. It bugged me. I went home and started reading everything I could about Holmes, never dreaming there was such an enormous bibliography. […]”
- 1979 April 1, Al Cartwright, “Delaware”, in Sunday News Journal, volume 5, number 13, Wilmington, Del., page F-8, column 6:
- Baum is making his first print appearance anywhere in the current issue of “The Baker Street Journal,” the “irregular quarterly” of Sherlock Holmes-iana.
- 1994 December 13, R.H.Smith, “GREYHAVENS BOOKS - Sale List 14”, in rec.arts.books.marketplace (Usenet):
- (Sherlock Holmes-iana) Brend, Gavin. MY DEAR HOLMES, A STUDY IN SHERLOCK.
- 2005, “King Kong Reviews”, in TV Guide[1], archived from the original on 19 April 2023:
- Aware of how bound up with movie mythology and the collective pop-unconscious KONG is, he indulges in a couple of sly in-jokes: An offhanded reference to Fay Wray, the first girl in the hairy paw (she's unavailable to step into Denham's epic because she's working on another picture) to a cage in Englehorn's hold labeled "Sumatran Rat Monkey," a dual nod to Jackson's own scrappy DEAD ALIVE and the outer fringes of Sherlock Holmes-iana.
- 2022, Makhosazana Xaba, “‘She Certainly Couldn’t Be Conventional If She Tried’: Noni Jabavu, the Editor of The New Strand Magazine in London”, in Bhekizizwe Peterson, Khwezi Mkhize, Makhosazana Xaba, editors, Foundational African Writers: Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi and Es’kia Mphahlele, Wits University Press, →ISBN, part III (In the Eye of the Short Century: Diaspora and Pan-Africanism Reconsidered), page 366:
- While listening to advice about not changing this genre, she deliberately read Lord Donegal’s manuscript on Sherlock Holmes-iana and was surprised at the pleasure she derived from it.